…in a circle, knotted, and in the middle a hand with an eye. The symbolism of the buddha is almost exactly the symbolism of shiva. Shiva is the lord of the phallus and the buddha is not. When you have a cross the cross is right in the middle, as…

…right up the line and shiva looked at this with great satisfaction and finally all that was left was the Face. Now this Face, Shiva said this is utterly admirable and I'm going to have this Face as the guardian of my temples and you'll see in many…

…right up the line and shiva looked at this with great satisfaction and finally all that was left was the Face. Now this Face, Shiva said this is utterly admirable and I'm going to have this Face as the guardian of my temples and you'll see in many…

…usurped the mastery of the world and according to the prophecy, only a son of the high god shiva could overthrow him. Shiva, however was aloof, alone, indrawn in meditation. It was impossible that shiva should ever be moved to beget a son. Parvati…

…asked why anyone so beautiful should be destroying herself with such torture. My desire she replied is shiva, the highest object. Shiva is a god of solitude and unshakable concentration. I therefore am practicing these austerities to move him from his state…

…concentration. I therefore am practicing these austerities to move him from his state of balance and bring him to me in love. Shiva, the youth said is a god of destruction. Shiva is the world annihilator. Shiva's delight is to meditate in burial grounds…

…to move him from his state of balance and bring him to me in love. Shiva, the youth said is a god of destruction. Shiva is the world annihilator. Shiva's delight is to meditate in burial grounds amidst the reek of corpses. There he beholds the rot of…

…as a restoration of the old brahminical tradition with the addition of yoga. In Hinduism you have the great gods Vishnu, Shiva and kali. Let me just conclude by speaking about these three gods very briefly. Vishnu is represented typically as the lord…

…growing from his navel on which the world rides. That god is the energy, the will that sends forth the dream of the world. Shiva is represented as the lord whose dance is the world and that wonderful dancing shiva image. He is shown with a little drum…

…and the moon, the moon coming and going, coming and going or the way of the flame, the sun door and exit. Shiva, in the attitude of the lingam, represents the returning principle the world preserving the world creating the world generating principle. In…

…or the hawk who pounces on the serpent as the sun pounces on the waters. These are prime images that come back and forth. Shiva, or rather, yes shiva has the moon in his hair and Vishnu is shown on the serpent, but Vishnu is also shown flying on…

…And now to conclude, I want to give one more Indian Myth, and it's a myth that has to do with the nature of life. Shiva the great god had a beautiful goddess as his spouse, parvati, and a demon came to him one time and demanded shiva to hand over…

…went his teeth went chopping right through his belly, right on up through his neck until all that was left was a Face. Shiva was enchanted. This was a perfect image of life which lives on life, and a monstrous, horrendous aspect of life and this mask…

…perfect image of life which lives on life, and a monstrous, horrendous aspect of life and this mask which is all that was left. Shiva said: I will call you kirtimukha, Face of glory, and you will sit above the door to my temple and anyone who doesn't…

…images. This is a permanent meditation. It's not idolatry. You're not idolizing this image. It's the radiance, it's the opening of it. Shiva helps you go through shiva, you don't stop with him. And this is the little dwarf forgetfulness on whom he is…

…get to heaven? Open, open, open until finally all is transpersonal. There's the goddess above the four gods: Indra Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, maya, Devi, Shakti. Here she is, here is the consciousness in two aspects: one addressed to the world, lingam yoni the…

…is dead. This figure facing her is called shiva see the reborn moon. The one turned away is called shava. Shava means corpse. Shiva is the god creating the world. The corpses in India when they're about to be burned are clothed in a yellow garment.…

…word shiva. And we come to shiva and his Shakti and there's the e, that's the Ganges, represented as a seminal ejaculation. Shiva and his goddess, shiva's animal, the bull. There she is the head of the creator triumph over the two aspects of…

…This this is a permanent meditation. It's not idolatry. You're not idolizing this image it's the radiance, it's the opening of it. Shiva helps you go through shiva. You don't stop with him. And this is the little dwarf forgetfulness on whom he is dancing,…

…you get to heaven? Open, open, open until finally all is transpersonal. There's the goddess above the four gods: Indra Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, maya, Devi, Shakti. Here she is: the world lingam yoni. The other turned away, the monk who is dead. This figure…

…is dead. This figure facing her is called shiva. See the reborn moon. The one turned away is called shava. Shava means corpse. Shiva is the god creating the world. The corpses in India when they're about to be burned are clothed in a yellow garment.…

…word shiva, and we come to shiva. And his Shakti and there's the e, that's the Ganges, represented as a seminal ejaculation. Shiva and his goddess, shiva's animal, the bull. There she is the head of the creator, triumph over the two aspects of…

…deity, who is the counter player to shiva. Now in the popular way of talking about Indian Gods, we say brahma, Vishnu, Shiva, brahma the creator, Vishnu the preserver, shiva the destroyer but actually the two great gods are Vishnu and shiva. Shiva the…

…Shiva, brahma the creator, Vishnu the preserver, shiva the destroyer but actually the two great gods are Vishnu and shiva. Shiva the world dancer. He's dancing on a little dwarf whose name is forgetfulness, that's ourselves, forgetful of our eternal identity…

…is a favorite story in the popular Theater: Vishnu's eating those guts everybody loves it. In the story the humbling of Indra, Shiva tells Indra that there are two aspects of life: the eternal and the revelation of the eternal through our experiences in…